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Reel 2016

Party All The Time

A fun side project taken on as a way to explore some animation and texturing techniques in C4D.

Snap-On

Date Night

Twitch Studios

Twitch Studios is the in house production team at Twitch.tv, creating live & post produced original content.

I created this short animated bumper to be used in edits of Twitch Studios productions. To emphasize our broad abilities as a full fledged production team, I applied the familiar phrase “Light, camera, action!” to our beloved Glitch character-logo.

“Twitch” logotype animation previously created by the very talented Matt Gravish

Zendo

Workday

Journey Through Financial Aid

The subject of financial aid is typically a dry, if not intimidating one. UW-Help needed a way to open a dialogue with prospective students that wouldn't scare them away from the idea.

While working for UW Extension I helped them to polish their message, developed visual concepts and art styles, and produced and animated a piece that was attractive and engaging for its audience.

Roche: Beyond the Pill

Roche, an international pharmaceutical research company, needed a fun and exciting way to kick off their Global Digital Summit, a massive industry conference in Switzerland.

The Child

Cisco : The Phone Booth

I had the pleasure of working with FirstPerson on this fun (mostly) hand animated piece for Cisco. The art direction by Nathan Campbell was fantastic as always, and this project was a lot of fun to work on and a great opportunity to practice hand drawn animation techniques. I was responsible for the the picture frame and elevator scene (0:26 - 0:35), as well as the ending transition of the phone booth (0:49).

Center of Gravity

Just for fun! Some experiments with shapes and movement.

Gearing up for College

While working at UW-Extension, myself and Conor Grebel had the opportunity to create an animation intended to get middle and high school students thinking about College.

We were given lots of creative freedom, and had fun designing, illustrating and animating what turned out to be a fun and successful project.

Google Drive

I had the pleasure of working with the great folks at First Person on this Launch video for Google Drive for Work. It highlights some of the new apps and security features for businesses. It was released to coincide with Google's I/O developer conference 2014.

Credits below

The Rules of Sheepshead

Wisconsin Public Television approached me to create an animation based on a story from their 'Wisconsin Life' radio program. I selected a segment in which Dave Cieslewicz, former Mayor of Madison, WI, shares his love of sheepshead as part of Wisconsin Life’s look at games.

The Transform Wisconsin Fund

The Transform Wisconsin Fund works toward encouraging healthy lifestyle choices in Wisconsin communities. They approached myself and Conor Grebel looking for a short animated piece to highlight and promote some of their new grant-based initiatives.

Role: design & Illustration

Flexible Degree

Animated video created for the University of Wisconsin System Campuses, intended to introduce and explain the basic concepts behind the new Flexible Degree program.

Refill Wizard

The video was a prominent feature in HealthFinch's presentation at the 2013 Allscripts Open App Challenge , where they took first place and were awarded $250,000.

Role: design & illustration, animation

Prints

A selection of prints designed and hand screen printed as part of Animal Canon, a design and print collaboration.

Uhh Yeah Dude

Meltosaurus

A fun exercise in digital painting techniques, taking the many drawings filling my sketchbooks and push them into more realized illustrations. More to come...

Monsters!

Sidewalk Chalk

CD packaging, logo, and shirt graphic developed for Chicago based hip-hop, jazz-fusion band Sidewalk Chalk.

Double Ewes

Chants

Rock County Folk Symposium

The Rock County Folk Symposium is a small scale indie music festival held along the Rock River in Janesville, WI.

The festival is a celebration of local music, friendship, and nature. The festivals founder and host, a musician and farmer, graciously provides an ample supply of his signature crop, roasted sweet corn.

Rock County Folk Symposium

The Rock County Folk Symposium is a small scale indie music festival held along the Rock River in Janesville, WI.

The festival is a celebration of local music, friendship, and nature. The festival grounds are tucked away in a lush forest, and guests are invited to explore the environment and camp under the stars.

Woodland Spirits

Large scale sculpture-painting installations, placed throughout the grounds of the Rock County Folk Symposium, a small scale music festival held along the Rock River in Wisconsin.

Each canvas was hand build from salvaged and donated wood, and painted with a mystical, musical woodland spirit animal.

Martin $ky

Alternate Endings

Submission for the "Alternate Endings" poster show, organized by Silver Screen Society. Artists were asked to conceive and illustrate an alternate ending to a film.

I chose the classic "King Kong", depicting Kong enjoying New York as a happy tourist, rather than plummeting to his death from the Empire State Building.

Silver Screen Society

My submission to Silver Screen Society, an illustration blog that asks artists to create a piece relating to different film each month.

I was assigned "Requiem for a Dream", and chose to reference the mother character and her psychological unraveling that begins with her obsession with television.